Isaac Asimov Quotes
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.
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...History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.'
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... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.
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There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.
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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
